The Armed Forces of Ukraine received a new batch of military equipment. As reported by Ukrainian media, widely covered broadcast, in total, the Ukrainian military received nine BTR-80 armored personnel carriers after repairs.
According to the press service of the concern “Ukroboronprom”, Kiev armored plant handed over nine armored personnel carriers BTR-80 to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, repaired as part of the state defense order. At the same time, the equipment was transferred with a delay of six months. The delay was explained by the lack of funding and additional workload.
Communication and navigation devices have been replaced on repaired vehicles, in addition, new “29-inch tires of Ukrainian production”.
Today we are handing over to our defenders the last batch of repaired BTR-80 armored personnel carriers. The work had to be completed in a special quarantine regime, but all our obligations under the state defense order 2019 years now completed
– said the director of the Kiev armored plant Vladimir Sinyavsky.
earlier it was reported, what 30 April, the Armed Forces of Ukraine received another batch of five armored personnel carriers BTR-4E produced by the Kharkiv KBM. The armored personnel carriers are armed with KT762 machine guns manufactured by the Kiev state-owned enterprise Mayak.
